SCRAPPING OLD CARS.
MOVEMENT IN FRANCE, AGE-LIMIT OF TEN YEARS. Fnced with the prospect of a decline in the. demand for motor-cars, leaders of the French industry have evolved a scheme for the destruction of vehicles ten years old or more. Details were explained at a meeting of a branch of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce at Perigueux recently. Members of the branch, which includes twelve departments in the centre of France, fully approved of the principle <rf a. "car destruction fund." It is proposed to make a small levy on every new motor-car, and with the money thus obtained to buy and scrap those vehicles which'have reached what is considered the reasonable age-limit of ten years. In this way. according to calculation, it will ho possible to eliminate 45,000 cars annually, or 25 per cent, of the number produced in France in a normal year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 10
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